The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20

They kick him into a corner That night he
puts his swollen head into the straw; but a
voice comes from heaven, saying: Courage,
poor boy, couragem Covering up his head
from the bestiality, and stopping his ears
nom the curSing, he gets on up better and
better He washes his face clean at the
public hydrant. With few pennies got at
running errands, he gets a better coat
Rough men, knowing that he comes from a
low street, say: Back with you, YOU little
villain, to the place where you come FROM
But that night the boy says: God help
me, | can't go back and quicker than ever
mother flew at the cry of the child'S pain,
the Lord responds from the heavens: "Cour-
age, poor boy, couragem His bright face
gets him position After while he is
second clerk. Years pass on, and he is
first clerk. Years pass on. The glory Of
young manhood is on him. He comes into
the firm. He goes on from one business
success to another. He has achieved
great fortune. He is the friend Of the
church of God, the friend of all good insti-
tutions, and one day he stands talking TO the
Board of Trade or to the Chamber of Com
merce. People say: do you know who
that is' Why that is a merchant prince,
and he was born on Elm street, But God
says in regard TO him something better than
that: These are they which came out of
great tribulation, and had their robes
washed and made white in the blood of the
Lamb o, for some one 10 write the history
Of boy heroes and girl heroines who have
triumpaed over want and starvation, and
filth and rags Yea, the record has already
been made-made by the hand of God, and
when these shall come at last with songs
and rejoicing, it will take a very broad ban
ner to hold the names of all the battlefields
on which they got the victory.
Some years ago a roughly-clad, ragged
boy came into my brothers office in New
York, and said; "Mr. Talmage, lend me five
dollars My brother said: "Who are
Lend me five dollars "What do you want
to do with five dollarsr' "Well, +" the boy
replied, my mother is sick and poor, and
want TO go into the newspaper business, and
| shall get home for her, and | will pay
you back" My brother gave him the five
dollars, of course never expecting to see it
again; but he said: ''When will you pay
its' The boy said II will pay it in six
months, sir.n Time went by, and one day a
lad came into my brothers office, and said;
There's your five dollars" 'What do
you meanl What five dollarsm inquired
my brother. Don't you remember that a
boy came in here six months ago and
wanted to borrow five dollars to go into the
newspaper businessp 40, yes, remember
are you the ladr' Eyes" he replied, ~
have got along nicely | have got nice
home for my mother (she is sick yeti, and |
am as well clothed as you are, and there's
your five dollars q, Yves he not worth
saving9 Why, that lad Is worth fifty such
boys as | have sometimes seen moving in
elegant circles, never put TO any use for God
or man. Worth saving go farther than
that, and tell you they are not
only worth saving, but they are being
saved. One of these lads picked up from
society. wrote East, saying: II am getting
along first rate ! am on probation in the
Methodist church shall be entered as a
member the first of next month. | now
teach Sunday school class of eleven boys.
get along first rate with it. This is a
splendid country TO make a living in. III
the boys running around the street with a
blacking-box on their shoulder, or bundle
of papers under their arms, only knew what
high old times we boys have out here, they
wouldn't hesitate about coming West, but
come the first chance they got. =
So some by one humane and
Christian visitation, and some by
another, are being rescued. In one reform
school, through which two thousand of the
little ones passed, one thousand nine hun
dred and ninety-hve turned out well. In
other words, only five of the two thousand
turned out badly. There are thousands of
them who, through Christian societies, have
been transplanted to beautiful homes all
over this land, and there are many who,
through the rich grace OF our Lord Jesus
Christ, have already won the crown. A
little girl was found in the streets of Balti-
more and taken into one Of the reform So
cieties, and they said TO her: "What is your
namer' She said my name is Mary.
what is your other namew She said: II
don't know" So they took her into the re-
form society, and as they did not know her
last name they always called her MARY
Lost since she had been picked up out Of
the street. But she grew on, and after
awhile the Holy Spirit came TO her heart,
and she became a Christian child and she
changed her name; and when anybody
asked her what her name was, she said: ut
used TO be Mary Lost; but now, since have
become Christian. IL is Mary Found"
For this vast multitude, are we willing to
20 forth from this mornings service and
see what we can do, employing all the agen-
cies | have spoken of for the rectification OF
the poisoned fountainsl We live in beau
tiful city. The lines have fallen to us in
pleasant places, and we have goodly heri-
tage: and any man who does not like a resi-
dence in Brooklyn, must be a most uncom
Portable ard unreasonable man. But, my
friends, the material prosperity of city
is not its chief glory. There may be fine
houses and beautiful streets, and that all be
the garniture of a sepulchre. Some OF the
most prosperous cities of the world have
gone down, not one stone left upon another.
But city may be in ruins long before
a tower has fallen, or column has
crumbled, or tomb has been
defaced When in city the churches OF
God are full of cold formalities and mani
mate religion, when the houses of com.
merce are the abode of fraud and unhQly
traffic; when the streets are filed with
crime unarrested, and sin unenlightened, and
helplessness unpitied-that city is In ruins
though every church were a st. Peters
and every moneyed institution were a Bank
of England, and every library were Brit
ish Museum, and every house had porch
like that of Rheims, and roof like that OF
Amiens. and tower like that of Antwerp
and tracerfed windows like those Of Frei
burg.
nv brethren, our pulses beat rapidly the
time away, and soon we shall be gone; and
what we have 10 do for the city in which we
live we must do right speedily, on never dc
IL at all. In that day when those who have
wrapped themselves in luxuries and despisec
the poor, shall come TO shame and everlest
ing contempt, hope it may be said of you
and me that we gave bread to the hungry
and wiped away the tear OF the orphan, and
upon the.wanderer of the street we opened
the brightness and benediction of a Chris
tian home: and then, through our instru
mentality, it shall be known on earth
and in heaven that Mary Lost became Mary